Garment-supporter



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R. H. SINK.

GARMENT SUPPORTBR.

No. 359,365. Patented Mar. 15, 1887.

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V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN HENRY SINK, OF GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,365, dated March 15, 1887.

Application filed October 16, 1886. Serial No. 216,432. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REUBEN HENRY SINK,

- a citizen of the United States, residing at Grass garment-supporters; and it consists of the peculiar combination and novel construction and arrangement of the various parts for service, substantially as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The object of my invention is to provide animproved supporter for upholding the undergarments of men without the necessity for auxiliary suspending devices on the suspenders for supporting the pantaloons,and which shall possess superior advantages over others which have preceded it in points of simplicity and strength of construction, ease and rapidity of adjustment, effectiveness of operation, and cheapness of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a garmentsupporter embodying my improvements, Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view thereof, and Fig. 3 isa view showing the manner of connecting the free ends of the securing-pins in the keepers provided therefor.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the garmentsupporter of my invention, which is con structed in the manner which I'will now proceed to describe in detail.

The supporter is provided with a clasp, B, which is made of a single piece of metal, pref erably spring metal, to adapt the sides or sections thereof to yield toward and away from 'one another in adjusting or connecting the supporter to the pantaloons of the wearer. This clasp is formed by bending a piece of elastic or spring metal upon itself to form the two sides or sections b b, which are connected at their upper ends and separated at their lower edges, as shown. The inner side, I), of

the clasp is provided at its lower edge with atransverse eye, 0, which is formed by leaving a tongue in the blank of which the clasp is made and then bending the tongue upon the body of theinner section,as will be Very readily understood. The upper side edges of the in ner section are provided with vertical eyes d and e, which are formed in a similar manner to the eye 0, and these eyes are adapted to receive the free ends of securing-pins E E, which I will hereinafter more fully describe. As the eyes (1 e serve to retain and keep the free ends of the pins fro m engagement with the garments of the wearer, I will hereinafter term them the keepers, and the said keepers are located on substantially the same plane but on opposite sides of the inner side or section, b, of the clasp, as shown.

E E are the vertical securing-pins, which are arranged in a vertical line at opposite edges of the inner side or section, b, of the clasp, and the lower ends of the said pins are connected by across pin or bar, 6, which is fitted in the eye 0 of the clasp to connect the pins thereto. This cross-bar connects the pins together very securely, and is swiveled or journaled in the eye of the clasp to adapt the pins to swing toward or away from the latter. The free ends of the pins are adapted to be compressed together by the pressure of the fingers on the pins, so that they will take or fit in the keepers at the upper ends of the clasp.

Inwardly projecting inclined retaining points or teeth I) are formed integral with the side b by being struck up out of the metal of the same, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and operate in the manner here inafter described.

The operation of my invention is obvious. The pins are disengaged from their keepers and swung outwardly from the clasp, after which they are passed through the upper edge of the drawers of the wearer, or any other .garment which it is desired to support. The free ends of the pins are again connected or engaged with the keepers, and the clasp then fitted over the upper edge of the pantaloons to support the drawers without independent or auxiliary straps and clasps on the suspenders, as is usual, the retaining teeth or points I) engaging with the cloth of the upper edge of the pantaloons and effectually preventing the device from working loose or slipping off of the upper edge of the pantaloons. more of these clasps may be employed and connected to the drawers and pantaloons at equidistant points ,and they serve to effectively Two or ICC and securely support the drawers from slipping down.

The supporter can be very easily and readily connected to both the pantaloons and the under-garment,and asreadilydisconnectedtherefrom to remove the clothing from the person.

, The device is simple and effective, as well as cheap, and can be adjusted in a moments time.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article ofnianufaeture, the herein-described garmerit-supporter,comprising the yielding sides I) 1), formed of a single piece of sheet metal, one of the sides having an integral eye at its lower end and the inte- REUBEN HENRY SINK.

Vitnesses: I

I-IERsonnL V. SINK, SARAH C. SEARS. 

